hi toilet bowl and all...i believe my connection is capped. Funny thing is when i try to login setting at 3g, the server just failed to respond and time out. I have to reset to reduce to GPRS speed. And at GPRS surfing, the speed is worst then 56k dial up. What's happening? Anyone have this experience?

no that's no capped yet, maybe 3g is down at your place, wait for an hour or so and try again,

when you got capped the network still in 3g or hsdpa, only the speed is reduce..

Anyway, Since this is prepaid broadband where maximum speed already capped where in 3G about 384kbps.Even you have a hsdpa enabled phone the speed also 384kbps.Therefore, for economy can get any cheap 3G phone is ok already.

I do see the HSDPA modem is price drop now. Just back from Jaya 32 Square for the Handphone Fair. The modem is about RM239.

I got streamyx at home already, I do my heavy downloading on that. I just want an additional connection to use at work (will be used on personal laptop), because the office is heavily firewalled and block everything: no youtube, no facebook, no bursa saham, no checking out rental/real estate websites, etc... very restrictive.

From what I read, the daily prepaid broadband plan sounds what I want. I'll most likely be using it to surf 2-3 hours at the office each day during lunch and a few minutes here and there between meetings.

I already have a laptop. So I'm guessing I need to buy a USB modem before I can go buy the starter pack for the Celcom prepaid broadband, right? I'm not interested in using 3G phone as modem - I already have a phone and don't plan to change it.

I got streamyx at home already, I do my heavy downloading on that. I just want an additional connection to use at work (will be used on personal laptop), because the office is heavily firewalled and block everything: no youtube, no facebook, no bursa saham, no checking out rental/real estate websites, etc... very restrictive.

From what I read, the daily prepaid broadband plan sounds what I want. I'll most likely be using it to surf 2-3 hours at the office each day during lunch and a few minutes here and there between meetings.

I already have a laptop. So I'm guessing I need to buy a USB modem before I can go buy the starter pack for the Celcom prepaid broadband, right? I'm not interested in using 3G phone as modem - I already have a phone and don't plan to change it.

That's all I need right? At least that's the impression I got after going through this thread and the Celcom links. Problem is I don't know anyone who's using this service so I dunno what to expect.

Hi uncleJ,

1. Any hsdpa usb modems will do the job. Price starting from rm200 and above on Garage Sales thread. Most Common ones are Huawei brand that of e220 and the K series. K series allow you to slot a microSD (thus a modem that acts as your thumbdrive too) Oh, try to find the ones which are unlocked (meaning, you can use them with any telcos if you decide to switch ISP in the future)

Joined: Oct 2004
From: Cyberjaya-where we have 7lanes road w/o cars on it

finally activated my CBP. tested it from KL to Penang.

@ KL :Speed at Cyberjaya/KL is great but latency is bad. Somewhere about 0.37Mbps/0.08Mbps/550ms/4 bar signal

@ Plus Highway:Coverage is bad. Only managed to use when i'm near to the toll area in KL/Ipoh/Penang. It wont work at any other stretch of the highway even i forced my phone to work in GPRS. My guess is that the setting i used was 3G setting and therefore GPRS don't work.

Speed is below average at the area where i can use. Might be due to the fact that i'm moving at speed of above 80km/h

@ Penang/Kedah :Speed is average but good latency. 0.33Mbps/0.11Mbps/250ms/2-3 bar signal

Reliability is good so far. The only time i got disconnected is when i ran out of 3G coverage in plus highway. Other than that, the service is so good so far.